Sari Altschuler

The Medical Imagination

Literature and Health in the Early United States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Medical Imagination traces the practice of using imagination and literature to craft, test, and implement theories of health in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. This history of imaginative experimentation provides a usable past for conversations about the role of the humanities in health research and practice today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780812225204
• ISBN-10: 0812225201
• Artikelnr.: 62192824

Autorenporträt

Sari Altschuler is Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Northeastern Humanities Center at Northeastern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Revolution
Chapter 2. Yellow Fever
Chapter 3. Cholera
Chapter 4. Difference
Chapter 5. Anesthesia
Conclusion. Humanistic Inquiry in Medicine, Then and Now
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments